The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-12-21
powpEKLy ON JAY GOULD.
y Very Severe Attack by tho Leader %
Labor upon the RAILROAD N~rngnato.

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Labor upon the Railroad ~NIugnato.
tFrom the Philadelphia Times.)
The General Executive Board of the
knights of Labor yesterday sent out
| from the Broad street h~eaduuarters the
last secret circular of the order prepared
! by General Master Workman Powderly.
1t is in reference to the establishment of
Il governmental system of biography and
directs every local assembly of the great
organization to issue red-letter calls, APP
point committees and wait upon every
Congressman i'll the separate districts
and persuade him to vote for the meas
urC.
The st crct circular is one of the most
plain ever issued by Mr.. Powderly, and
makes the most bitter attack upon Jay
Gould and monopolists in general that
has ever been made by the order. 1t
first rub the members of the order for
not attending to their duties apd work
Ing i. tae interest OF governmental tclc-
grN. aud then tells of the combined
,ii0rtS OF the managers of tele8rnphliues
to suppress al good and spread all dis
'purlging news relating to the Knights
u LABOR.
SCORlNG JAY GOULD.
Mr. rowderly tells of the power of the
Western Union and how it stands with
ont u rival; how the Western Union Inns
ctiectuHIly and easily killed of all com.
| pcitOrs, and cites, as an instance. the
mcrein ing OF the Baltimore and Ohio.
Jay Gould rules absolutely the desti-
MES OF the American people," says Mr..
~Powderly, '<and he is the practical own.
e. OF that part OF the United Suites
wiuch he wishes to take"
In speaking OF the "capitalistic press
he says the order cannot ask the press of
this country to be independent as long
as it allows monopoly to control both
press and people. The circular says:
The news comes to them ready made
on wires oven which the people, the
editors of labor papers md the capital.
istic press have no control. We ask O,
editors OF papers to speak out against
monopoly. If they comply with our
request they arc boycottcd, first by the
man (D who W the wires, whan tn,
Geographic news is shut off from thcii
columns; second, by the very people
who have asked OF them to wage war on
monopoly and because they 10 not pub.
lish the news.'"
The circular tells how the government
las reduced postal charges to Il mini.
num-, and how whcn mistakes are made
N transmission or delivery the govern
mcnt is always anxious to rectify such
error. AS Il comparison it says com
plaiEt against the Western Union Telc.
graph Company is entirely useless; that
j., unless the complainant has ten OF
twenty millions of dollars to back him
up.
IT Is TIME TO WORK.
The circular says that Jay Gould has
60 e Just as far Us he ought to go in MS
career OF rnpacity. The system he rep.
resents can be displaced if the people
awake from their slumbers. The &C.
counts of then next Presidential election
may be flashed over wires owned and con
tro.icd by the people, if they will act at
cNcc. In reference to asking each and
every Senator or Congressman to vote
Tor governmental telcgraphy Mir. Pow
Derby closes the circular with:
when YOU have secured MI the uamcs
.yon can get send the petitions 10 the
General Secretary, bu. do not mail them
until the "a day Of January, 1888. On
ttat DAY from every to wn and hamlet in
ne United States where We have an
assembly J. want to have a petition. |
shall have the names counted aud shall
take them to Washington to have them
presented to Congress. Fill them oui
carefully. Have every maj or woman
sign his or own n8mc. Get the best
writer in the assembly to fill out the
beading to each petition, giving the
name OF state, number of Congressional
q strict and the name Of your Congress
nan. BE sure to have these matters
carefully attended to. / am in earnest,
and [ want to take with nue. a petition 50
large tnnt 1t will demonstrate beyond the
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